M: Hello English learners! Welcome back to EnglishPod! My name is Marco. E: And I’m Erica. M: And today we’re bringing you another great lesson for all of you, who are interested in shopping. E: Especially those of you, who are interested in shopping for a car. M: A car. E: Uhu. M: Exactly. So, we’re gonna give you some great language about describing a car or characteristics of a car. E: Yeah. M: And also some really interesting language for shopping. E: Yes, especially buying something really big and expensive. M: Yeah, like a car. E: Yeah. M: So, before we listen to our dialogue let’s take a look at “vocabulary preview”. Voice: Vocabulary preview. M: On vocabulary preview today we’re brining two words. The first one is vehicle. E: Vehicle. M: Vehicle. E: Vehicle. M: So, again a vehicle is a machine, right? E: Right, a machine that carries people from one place to another. M: So, it’s important to say that a vehicle could be an airplane… E: A car. M: A car. E: A boat. M: Boat. E: Even a bicycle. M: Right. E: Yeah. M: That’s a vehicle. Our second word is sedan. E: Sedan. M: Sedan. E: Sedan. M: So, a sedan is a type of car. E: Exactly. It… it’s a type of car with four doors that can fit five people inside. M: So, to make it more clear, most taxies are sedans. E: Exactly. M: Right? E: Yeah. M: They have four doors. E: Yeah. M: Five people can fit in there… E: Yeah. M: Including the driver. Except taxies in Mexico. E: They’re not sedans? M: They’re little Beetles. E: Oh. M: The Volkswagen Beetles. E: Okay. M: So, those are not sedans. But, yeah, most, uh, countries have sedans as taxies. E: Yeah. M: To give you some examples, like a Toyota Corolla or a Toyota Camry is a sedan. E: Yeah, yeah. Maybe like, uh, a Volkswagen Getta is that a…. M: A Jetta, yeah… E: Yeah. M: A Jetta is the sedan. E: Yeah. M: Now, we could listen to our dialogue and it’s gonna be at a normal speed, the first time, but you don’t have to worry about it. E: We’ll come back and teach you some of the important words from the dialogue. A: Hi there, can I help you folks? B: I’m just browsing; seeing what’s on the lot. My daughter wants a car for her birthday, you know how it is. C: Dad! I’m sixteen already and I’m, like, the only one at school who doesn’t have a car! A: She is right, you know. Kids these days all have cars. Let me show you something we just got in: a 1996 sedan. Excellent gas mileage, it has dual airbags and anti lock brakes; a perfect vehicle for a young driver. C: Dad, I love it! It’s awesome! Can we get this one please? B: I see... What can you tell me about this one? A: Oh, that’s just an old World War Two tank that we use for TV commercials. Now about this sedan... B: Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Tell me more about this tank. A: Well, Sir, if you are looking for quality and safety then look no further! Three inches of reinforced steel protect your daughter from short range mis- sile attacks. B: Does the sedan protect her from missile attacks? A: It does not. B: Well, I don’t know. Let me sleep on it. A: Did I mention the tank is a tank? B: I’ll take it! C: Dad! M: I think she’s really lucky. She’s… E: Really? M: She’s getting a tank to go to school. How awesome is that? E: Uh, I would be so embarrassed if I had to drive to school on a tank. M: That’s like the coolest car. E: Oh, you’re such a boy. M: Hehe. Alright, a surprising ending to, uh, relatively easy shopping day. E: Yeah. M: Uh, let’s take a look at some… language that we saw in our dialogue on “language takeaway”. Voice: Language takeaway. E: We have four words for you today. The first one is gas mileage. M: Gas mileage. E: Gas mileage. M: Gas mileage. So, gas mileage is how many miles you can travel on a gallon or liter of gasoline. E: Well, you know, it’s interesting in some English speaking countries like Australia, New Zeeland, Canada, we use kilometers… M: Right. E: To measure distance. But we still talk about gas mileage. M: Uh. E: Yeah. M: I guess you can’t say gas kilomiliage. E: No. M: Or… or some like that. But, yeah, it’s… yeah, basically, how many kilometers or how many miles you can travel on a tank or on a liter or gallon of gas. E: Exactly. M: Okay. E: The next word is airbags. M: Airbags. E: Airbags. M: Airbags. E: These are like big bags of air that fill up and come out of the car when there’s a crash. M: Right, so, that way you don’t hit your head against… E: Yeah. M: The steering wheel or… E: Yeah. M: Something like that. E: So, they protect you. M: Right, I’ve heard that Volvo has like eighteen airbags now in their cars. E: They are very safe cars, you know. M: Hehe. Like a big balloon. E: Aha. M: Okay, our third word today is brakes. E: Brakes. M: Brakes. E: Brakes. So, what are brakes? M: Brakes are little… What are breaks? Breaks are what make your car stop. E: Okay, so, that the little machines maybe that stop your car. M: Yeah, they’re on the wheels. E: Yeah. M: They make your car stop. E: Aha. M: You have brakes on your bike. E: Yes. M: On your car, etcetera. E: Uhu. M: Our last word today on language takeaway – reinforced. E: Reinforced. M: Reinforced. E: Reinforced. M: So, we have some examples of how we use reinforced, because it’s a little bit weird. E: Yeah, these will help you understand the meaning. Voice: Example one. A: So, I reinforced all the walls; there’s no way they’re gonna fall down. Voice: Example two. B: This plastic is reinforced with the glass, so it’s both light and strong. M: So, basically, anything that’s reinforced is made stronger. E: Perfect. M: Reinforced steel… E: Yep. M: Reinforced table. E: Aha. M: Anything. Okay. Great, so now we could listen to our dialogue again. You can practice all these words that we just talked about and we’ll come back shortly. A: Hi there, can I help you folks? B: I’m just browsing; seeing what’s on the lot. My daughter wants a car for her birthday, you know how it is. C: Dad! I’m sixteen already and I’m, like, the only one at school who doesn’t have a car! A: She is right, you know. Kids these days all have cars. Let me show you something we just got in: a 1996 sedan. Excellent gas mileage, it has dual airbags and anti lock brakes; a perfect vehicle for a young driver. C: Dad, I love it! It’s awesome! Can we get this one please? B: I see... What can you tell me about this one? A: Oh, that’s just an old World War Two tank that we use for TV commercials. Now about this sedan... B: Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Tell me more about this tank. A: Well, Sir, if you are looking for quality and safety then look no further! Three inches of reinforced steel protect your daughter from short range mis- sile attacks. B: Does the sedan protect her from missile attacks? A: It does not. B: Well, I don’t know. Let me sleep on it. A: Did I mention the tank is a tank? B: I’ll take it! C: Dad! E: So, we have a couple of interesting phrases to talk about shopping. M: Right. E: Let’s look at these in “fluency builder”. Voice: Fluency builder. M: The first one is I’m just browsing. E: I’m just browsing. M: I’m just browsing. E: I’m just browsing. M: This is a really useful phrase, because usually salespeople will come up to you and ask you “can I help you?” or… E: Yeah. M: “Are you interested in something?” E: Yeah. M: And you’re just looking, so… E: Yeah, you maybe… you don’t really wanna buy today. M: Right. E: Yeah. M: So, you’re just “uh, I’m just browsing”. E: Uhu. M: So, then they’ll just leave you alone and… E: Yeah, they won’t bother you as much. M: Yeah, it’s a good, good phrase. E: Another good phrase. M: Sleep on it. E: Sleep on it. M: Sleep on it. E: Sleep on it. M: So, we have some examples of how we use sleep on it. Voice: Example one. A: I don’t know if we should buy that house. It’s perfect for us, but it’s so expensive. B: Let’s sleep on it. Voice: Example two. C: Why don’t you sleep on it and tell me tomorrow? Voice: Example three. D: This is a bit more than what I can afford; let me sleep on it. M: To sleep on it means to… E: Like to think about it overnight. M: To think about it, right? E: Yeah. M: So, maybe you wanna buy this really expensive car. E: But you need to think about it. M: Right. E: So, you’ll sleep on it. M: So… yeah. You go home, sleep on it, think about it twice and then make a decision. E: Exactly. M: Okay, great words and great dialogue, so… E: Yeah, I love this dialogue. M: Yeah, it was… it’s kind of funny. So, we could listen to it again and then we’ll come back and talk a little bit about it. A: Hi there, can I help you folks? B: I’m just browsing; seeing what’s on the lot. My daughter wants a car for her birthday, you know how it is. C: Dad! I’m sixteen already and I’m, like, the only one at school who doesn’t have a car! A: She is right, you know. Kids these days all have cars. Let me show you something we just got in: a 1996 sedan. Excellent gas mileage, it has dual airbags and anti lock brakes; a perfect vehicle for a young driver. C: Dad, I love it! It’s awesome! Can we get this one please? B: I see... What can you tell me about this one? A: Oh, that’s just an old World War Two tank that we use for TV commercials. Now about this sedan... B: Whoa, whoa wait a minute. Tell me more about this tank. A: Well, Sir, if you are looking for quality and safety then look no further! Three inches of reinforced steel protect your daughter from short range mis- sile attacks. B: Does the sedan protect her from missile attacks? A: It does not. B: Well, I don’t know. Let me sleep on it. A: Did I mention the tank is a tank? B: I’ll take it! C: Dad! E: So, Marco, have you ever driven a tank? M: Hehe. Well… E: I… I mean know you were in the army, so… M: Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, actually I did… I did drive, uh, a tank before. E: Really? M: A really… yeah, a really old one… E: Really? M: Kind of like a World War Two type tank. But, yeah, they’re really fun and interesting. You have… it’s not like driving a normal car. You have pedals and you have… E: So, there’s no steering wheel? M: No, no, no. You have, um, levers… E: Yeah. M: And, uh… what many people don’t know is that actually tanks are… manual transmission, so you have to change gears. E: Oh, really? M: And it’s really hard to change gears on those things. E: And what’s the gas mileage like on a tank? M: Hehe. I don’t know, maybe like five miles per gallon, well… E: Okay. M: They run on diesel… E: Aha. M: Witch is a different type of fuel, right? E: Yep. Okay, well, very cool. I never knew that my podcast partner had driven a tank. That’s pretty awesome. M: Yeah, well, it was… it was fun, definitely and… I hope I get to do it again some day. E: Alright. Well, uh, guys, have you ever driven a tank? M: Or a submarine or any type of, uh, armor vehicle. E: Yeah, tell us about it at our website englishpod.com. M: Right, we’ll be there to answer all your questions. I’ll also be there to maybe post some more crazy stories. E: Or some pictures of the tank or something. M: Yeah, maybe. E: Yeah. M: Alright guys, we’ll see you there… until then it’s… E: Good bye! M: Bye!